At Orientation, you will have the opportunity to discuss your academic and career goals and plan your class schedule for the upcoming semester. You will meet with advisors from the Academic and Transfer Advising Services office and your major department. Whether you have questions about selecting classes, choosing a major, or reviewing degree requirements, there will be advisors ready to assist you.

All course work completed with a grade of C or higher from a regionally accredited college will be applied toward the total credit hour requirement for a Stony Brook B.A., B.S., or B.E. degree.  Courses for which grades of P or S are earned are also accepted.  Graduates of SUNY or CUNY colleges who earn an A.A. or an A.S. degree prior to matriculation at Stony Brook will receive credit for all course work completed as part of the associates degree requirements.  You will get credit for all work only when Stony Brook has received an official transcript from your previous school showing the grades of all completed coursework. Transfer of credit is limited to 84 credits.

Click  here to view our database of transfer course equivalencies.

Courses may transfer to the University as either:

• a specific Undergraduate course (for example, PSY 103 Introduction to Psychology
• as departmental elective credit (for example, EGL 100TR Transfer Elective)
• a DEC/SBC elective (for example, TCE200SBS/F Transfer Elective fulfilling SBC category SBS and/or DEC F)
• a course that needs to be evaluated by a specific department (for example, CSE 1XX Needs Comp Sci Eval)

Yes. You must have official transcripts sent from every college or university you have attended, regardless of credit earned. A notation of transfer credits from one school on the transcript of another is not sufficient.

If you sent Stony Brook a transcript while you were still taking courses at your previous school, those courses will not show as earned credits. You must request a final transcript after all of your grades are recorded. If you have earned an Associate's Degree, be sure that it's posted on the transcript. Have transcripts sent to:

Undergraduate Admissions
Stony Brook University
118 Administration Building 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-1901

Grades received for transferred courses are not included in the calculation of your cumulative grade point average at Stony Brook.

You may have already satisfied Entry Skill 1: Basic Mathematics Competence with AP exam scores,  Click here for details.

You may have already satisfied Entry Skill 3: Elementary Foreign Language Competence with Regents exam scores, AP exam scores, or SAT II exam scores. Students whose high schools do not offer Regents exams and students who attended a high school where the language of instruction was other than English may also have already satisfied this requirement.  Click here for details.

Some AP exams will meet DEC or SBC requirements and count towards graduation credit. To see which AP exams will meet graduation and DEC or SBC requirements,  please click here.

You will need to have your high school send a copy of your transcript to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. You may need to have the Educational Testing Service; Princeton, NJ 08541; (609) 771-7300 send your AP scores electronically to the Admissions Office. Stony Brook's school code is 2548.

Stony Brook accepts up to 30 credits by examination in partial fulfillment of the bachelor’s degree. Included in this total may be credit based on standardized external examinations such as AP, CLEP, and Stony Brook’s Foreign Language Challenge Program. Credit by examination may not be used to satisfy most Diversified Education Curriculum requirements; however, they may be used to satisfy one course in each of categories E, F, and G.  Credit by examination will be reviewed on a case-by case basis for applicability to the SBC curriculum.

The University awards credit for the CLEP (College-Level Examination Program) subject examinations only. Credit is not awarded for the CLEP general examinations. The scores received must be equivalent to a grade of C. A maximum of 30 credits by examination may be applied toward the degree.

Credit requested for examinations or programs (e.g., military) not specifically mentioned above must be substantiated by the appropriate documentation. Requests for reviews of students’ qualifications must be submitted in writing to the Undergraduate Admissions Office.

The Academic and Transfer Advising Services' office automatically will evaluate all previous work towards Stony Brook's D.E.C. or SBC categories and total credit hours. Transfer credit will be entered on the official University transcript. Grades received for transferred courses are not included in the calculation of your cumulative g.p.a. at Stony Brook.

Many courses from other schools have already been evaluated by Stony Brook University. Click  here to view our database of transfer course equivalencies.

If a course isn't listed in this database, you will receive information on your Orientation Day detailing how to have courses evaluated. If you are a continuing student, please see the steps below.

• Fill out a transfer credit evaluation form (available at the Academic and Transfer Advising Services Office) and attach an official description of the course from the previous school's course catalog. Some departments may require a course syllabus as well.
  
  
  
  
• Take the form, along with an attached course description, to the corresponding academic department at Stony Brook. For example, a psychology course should be evaluated by Stony Brook's Department of Psychology. Once evaluated by the department, please return the white copy to Academic and Transfer Advising Services, give the pink copy to your major or minor department (if applicable), and keep the yellow copy for your records. Transfer Advisors will update your transcript, if necessary.

Please review  this information regarding math expectations and requirements.